Chaos Corona 10 for Cinema 4D daily builds - Changelog

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Changes in Corona 10 for Cinema 4D (Daily Build 2022-11-03) (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cMHzUt4QXW_KvapPe6Ar1k5e0SUKE8Ei):

• Fixed:
• Added 55 materials in material library that were missing in comparison to material library in 3ds Max (Glass, Nature and Plastic categories)
• Fixed crash on macOS when opening color picker from Corona VFB when Redshift is installed
• Fixed problem with installer sometimes showing error on macOS even when everything installs correctly

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Changes in Corona 10 for Cinema 4D (Daily Build 2022-11-28) (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cMHzUt4QXW_KvapPe6Ar1k5e0SUKE8Ei):

• Fixed:
• Fixed IR crashes occuring in some specific cases (usually either complex scenes or some specific combinations with e.g. Xpresso usage)
• Fixed problem with Corona Lights still showing in viewport even when viewport visibility was off or whole light was disabled
• Fixed problem with IR not correctly updating when changing materials in Include/Exclude list in material overrides
• Fixed missing UI button icons in Scanned material UI in older versions of Cinema 4D
• Scanned material no longer shows requirement for V-Ray in its description in UI
• Fixed problem with tone mapping from camera not being applied when rendering via Team Render Server

Note: All changes in this and previous build will be released in a v9 Hotfix

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Changes in Corona 10 for Cinema 4D (Daily Build 2022-12-20) (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cMHzUt4QXW_KvapPe6Ar1k5e0SUKE8Ei):

• New:
• Corona now correctly resolves in which volume the camera lies
• Corona camera can also be given a non-zero physical size, in which case the camera might lie only partially in one volume (e.g. camera half-submerged in water)
• Clouds lighting now depends on the sun color intensity and direct input color settings (if selected in the sun properties)
• Added option to automatically create lightmix layers from C4D layers
• User can now set how volume (volume material, sky volume effect and volume grid) interact with alpha channel, semi-transparent volumetric effects now also contribute to alpha channel for rays not hitting anything
• Added option to automatically convert legacy Corona Sky tag into Corona Sky object
• Added tag for per-object displacement overrides
• C4D Add Reflection/Refraction BG Override to materials
• Curves in tone mapping can now be edited directly in Corona VFB without opening additional dialog
• Optimisations:
• Improved performance when rendering with masks
• in cases where the user includes just a small object and the rest of the scene is not rendered we get up to 600% speedup, in non extreme cases it leads to around a 10% speedup
• Improved caustics for higher resolution renders
• Chaos Scans:
• Fixed incorrect albedo (displayed as red in albedo render element)
• Added support for triplanar mapping in Scanned material
• Automatically correct loaded path in Scanned material when user opens preview instead of vrscan file
• Corona node material editor:
• Possibility to create shader in Corona node material editor directly on existing connection (e.g. adding filter between Bitmap and material) by right-clicking existing connection
• Fixed UNDO creation when hiding nodes in material node system
• Fixed issue when reassigning the same shader into the same slot in material node system could cause problems when IR was running
• Fixed occasional crash when reconnecting node over existing connection of the same shader if it is the only remaining shader connection
• Fixed problem when some removed nodes would still appear in the editor (usually with black preview and could not be edited)
• Other:
• CIE - Added tone mapping error reporting when loading an image
• Log messages in Console window are now grouped in Corona category (R23+ only)
• Removed old backward compatibility conversion dialog (that opened when loading some legacy scenes) and replaced with error dialog
• the error dialog is now not blocking
• this also fixes problem when conversion options were not shown in C4D 2023
• resolves some problems regarding conversion messages being shown when loading xrefs
• Added warnings for supported materials in rendered splines and pattern modifier
• Warning is now shown when trying to open Cosmos when Cosmos is not running (e.g. because it is not installed)
• Fixed initial rendering of objects dependent on Thinking Particles in IR

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Changes in Corona 10 for Cinema 4D (Daily Build 2023-01-23) (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cMHzUt4QXW_KvapPe6Ar1k5e0SUKE8Ei):

• New:
• Added support for Pattern modifier (EnMesh) assets from Chaos Cosmos
• Added UI widget for managing VDB paths in Corona Volume Grid
• Corona Light:
• Merged Type and Shape parameters into single parameter
• Light geometry now also generates UVWs
• It is now possible to assign material (e.g. Corona Light) to light to set its texture
• Added support for caps in cylindrical light
• Fixes:
• Fixed crash when updating or restarting Chaos Cosmos while C4D is running
• Fixed occasional crashes while opening C4D on some systems
• Fixed rare crash when starting render
• Fixed artifacts in Corona Pattern modifier caused by self-intersection
• Fixed problem with automatic LightMix setup using layers not processing all layer objects
• Fixed issue with tone mapping pipeline not switching correctly in some specific cases when active camera was switched (e.g. stage object or using some viewport menu)
• Fixed problem with spherical Corona light having incorrect size when motion blur is enabled
• Fixed problem with LightMix multipliers being baked into some lights multiple times (leading to some lights having incorrect intensity after baking)
• Fixed issue where camera with non-zero physical size caused issues with caustics
• Improved handling of anisotropy near Z direction on some objects (e.g. rounded cube)

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Changes in Corona 10 for Cinema 4D (Daily Build 2023-02-15) (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cMHzUt4QXW_KvapPe6Ar1k5e0SUKE8Ei):

• New:
• Added support for Chaos Scans viewport preview
• Added support for bump and displacement in Scanned material
• Added CPU core limit UI in Corona preferences
• this always use the same values as CPU limit in Cinema 4D part of preferences
• NOTE: we plan to do some improvements in IR thread limit in next daily build
• Corona preferences moved under Renderer section in Cinema 4D preferences
• Added missing tooltips for bump in Corona Physical, Scanned, Skin and Hair materials
• UvwRandomizer was renamed to MappingRandomizer and extended to allow randomization of shaders in object/world space
• Corona Distance shader now supports distance from multi instances and Chaos Scatter
• Frequency factor for scatter distribution objects is now disabled for splines (as factor is not used for spline scattering)
• Fixes:
• Fixed bug causing multi-instances of Corona Proxy to not render in final (non-IR) render in Cinema 4D R20
• Fixed problem with legacy emission warning not being shown in Cinema 4D S26+ (when loading very old scenes)
• Fixed some cases when object picking from VFB after render would cause crash (e.g. when picking hair rendered with C4D Hair material containing opacity)
• Fixed problem with disabling UI when editing properties of object lists in Chaos Scatter in Cinema 4D 2023
• Fixed issue with Cinema 4D version string for 2023+ being incorrectly formatted in installer and in About dialog
• Fixes in generated UVWs of Corona Light

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Changes in Corona 10 for Cinema 4D (Daily Build 2023-03-09) (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cMHzUt4QXW_KvapPe6Ar1k5e0SUKE8Ei):

• New:
• Node material editor now allows zoom via "Alt + RMB"
• Updated Optix denoiser implementation from version 6.5.0 to version 7.5.0
• Driver version R515 or later is required
• Supports the same GPUs as 6.5.0
• Chaos Scatter UI now shows number of scattered instances and polygons
• Chaos Scatter can now distibute instances over another scatter
• Note that this is only suitable for smaller amount of instances on target scatter
• Chaos Scatter now has its own About dialog
• Changes:
• IR subsampling setting moved from devel/experimental settings to Corona preferences
• Hidden Corona preferences in Team Render Server/Client that are only used in full Cinema 4D UI
• Immediate updates in Chaos Scatter are now automatically disabled when viewport display is set to None
• Fixes:
• Fixed issue with IR thread number override not accepting 0 (as non-limited option)
• Fixed crash when distribution object for Chaos scatter causes cycle with another scatter
• Fixed motion blur rendering for Corona Decal
• Fixed issue where refractive caustics where generated from physical material even when they were disabled in the material options
• Caustics now work for Pattern with Use pattern material option enabled

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Changes in Corona 10 for Cinema 4D (Daily Build 2023-04-03) (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cMHzUt4QXW_KvapPe6Ar1k5e0SUKE8Ei):

• New:
• Corona Proxy can now be scaled with scale tool in Model mode
• Added option to use shader directly in Corona light
• Changes:
• Changing active preset in Physical material now preserves original mix strength
• Spherical Corona light now generates standard spherical UVWs
• Chaos Scatter on Windows is now installed as a separate plugin with its own uninstaller
• Fixes:
• Fixed issue with "Setup interactive LightMix" opening behind render settings dialog on macOS
• Fixed issue with Error dialog always ordering behind other C4D windows on macOS after second error is displayed
• Fixed problem in IR when moving object inheriting material from parent outside of its hierarchy would still render with original material
• Fixed issue with warning message prompting the user to switch to world space displacement (for orthographic camera) not properly updating render settings when selected by user
• Fixed problem with pattern modifier being incorrectly rotated when scattered using Chaos Scatter or Cloner

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Changes in Corona 10 for Cinema 4D (Daily Build 2023-05-15) (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cMHzUt4QXW_KvapPe6Ar1k5e0SUKE8Ei):

• New:
• Added configurable low and high treshold to Albedo pass in multi-pass
• Added support for Velocity pass in Multi-pass
• Added support for deformation motion blur
• Only deformation keeping constant amount of polygons/points is currently supported (e.g. PLA, simple modifiers like Bend etc)
• Quality of non-linear MB can be adjusted in render settings by changing "Geometry segments" (setting zero will fully disable deformation MB)
• Decal now has selectable channels (color, opacity, specular, emission, etc.) that influence which property of the base material it overrides
• Changes:
• Bounding box of models in Chaos Scatter no longer take into account position of modifier object
• Chaos Scatter on macOS is now installed as separate plugin with its own uninstaller
• Changed the way objects are identified in various shaders (Multi Shader, Mapping Randomizer), ID pass, when evaluating motion blur and more
• There are currently still some cases where e.g. color of objects in ID pass changes between renders, but the new algorithm should help resolve these issues in following daily builds
• Slightly changed Chaos Scatter object icon
• Max distance value in Corona AO shader now multiplies specified texture if texture is added
• Fixes:
• Fixed problem in Physical material where it was possible to set Level higher than 100% for edge color and translucency
• High quality pixel filtering is now implicitly disabled in IR with denoising enabled without affecting document settings
• Fixed reseting of default values (by right clicking on spinner) for values in spline includes/excludes in Chaos Scatter
• Fixed issue with VolumeGrid and Volume material affecting reflection of objects inside its bounding box
• Fixed issue with some parameters in multi-pass not correctly resetting to default value
• Fixed updates of Chaos Scatter when parent of distribution object is moved

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Changes in Corona 10 for Cinema 4D (Daily Build 2023-05-30) (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cMHzUt4QXW_KvapPe6Ar1k5e0SUKE8Ei):

• New:
• Added Corona Lister dialog
• Allows simple editing of common Corona objects
• Lister can filter Corona Camera, Light, Sun, Sky and Proxy
• Render resolution can now be changed in IR
• Resolution is automatically adjusted for both IR in viewport and IR in Corona VFB
• Depth of Field Highlights solver is now available to users
• Added warnings about unsupported camera modes
• Added warning when not using high quality filtering
• Improved budgeting
• Disabled bucket rendering automatically, since it is inefficient together with DOF solver
• Improved handling of high-glossy highlights
• Decal can now select whether its bump and displacement is added on top of the base material, replaces the base material or does not influence the base material
• IES lights can be imported from Cosmos
• It is possible to show physical size of the camera in viewport
• Changes:
• Improvemets for conversion of C4D materials
• This is currently mostly internal change, but should help us improve material conversion in future
• Fixes:
• Workarounded bug in Cinema 4D S24 where last character of each line in tooltips was missing

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This is our first RC, we'll now focus on testing and resolving any remaining issues.

Changes in Corona 10 for Cinema 4D (Release Candidate 1) (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19tb9yglJGYu3Y_NBawOGClkoSE4R1wr7):

• New:
• Added Surface Color shader for Chaos Scatter
• Added option to enable/disable automatic IR resolution change in VFB
• Custom aperture shape can now be rotated
• Changes:
• Opacity replacement in Corona decal channels is now disabled by default
• Improved help system integration with Cinema 4D "Show help" command
• Fixes:
• Fixed problem with custom DOF aperture shape being rotated by 90 degrees and bladed aperture rotated by 180 degrees
• Fixed problem with lister dialog content being vertically stretched in some scenarios
• Fixed crash when importing Cosmos lights
• Fixed duplicated multi-pass layers in VFB when render resolution is changed in IR
• Fixed resizing of IR resolution in VFB when using upscaling factor
• Fixed problem with dialogs opened from lister (e.g. columns visibility or color picker) not being in front of main C4D window
• Fixed switching of mask source mode in Corona Decal when unchecking related checkbox
• Fixed crash when changing Corona Decal using shader as mask source and with cloning instances in IR
• Fixed crash when changing Corona Light using shader texture and with cloning instances in IR
• Fixed rare crash hapening when changing tone mapping in camera
• Fixed slower rendering with buckets than without buckets
• Improved performance of CoronaAO map in some rare cases

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Changes in Corona 10 for Cinema 4D (Release Candidate 2) (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19tb9yglJGYu3Y_NBawOGClkoSE4R1wr7):

• New:
• Added support for Chaos Scatter in Lister dialog
• Added support for Corona Light material in Lister dialog
• Added support for displacement of Corona materials in Lister dialog
• Changes:
• Enabled out of core textures by default
• Updated version of Cosmos shipped in installer to the latest version
• Fixes:
• Fixed issue with some object not moving in IR when velocity pass is added in Multi-pass
• Fixed issue with lister not always showing objects copied in viewport using CTRL+drag
• Fixed issue with lister not updating values when viewport was not visible
• Reduced lister overhead when lister dialog is closed
• Fixed issue where some objects might randomly disappear from lister
• Fixed Corona Pattern modifier not correctly handling proxy - pattern from proxy only rendered in Full mesh mode and was missing in some animation frames
• Corona pattern now respects "Render Visibility" setting of its geometry
• Fixed bug where "Delete unused materials" removed Corona Sky preview
• Fixed crash in lister after removing represented object from document while having focus in number spinner in Lister dialog
• Fixed crash when Material tag with deleted material is drag&droped into Node material editor
• Fixed action link to switch image filter to HQ in warning message for DOF highlights solver
• Fixed crash in IR when moving material tag from object with multiple materials in some specific scenes

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Changes in Corona 10 for Cinema 4D (Release Candidate 3) (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19tb9yglJGYu3Y_NBawOGClkoSE4R1wr7):

• Fixes:
• Improved warning message shown when combining DOF solver, AI denoising and HQ filtering
• Fixed problem with ID pass and randomization shaders rendering differently on each TeamRender client
• Fixed issue where having displaced base object with at least two different decals would lead to having no displacement for a decal which does not replace displacement
• Fixed issue where having different Roughness mode or IOR mode in decal material and base object material resulted in wrong roughness/IOR when using just some decal channels

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Changes in Corona 10 for Cinema 4D (https://corona-renderer.com/download):

• Fixes:
• Fixed problem with ID pass and randomization shaders rendering differently when using TR server (note that document need to be resaved in new version for fix to work)
• Fixed incorrect height of warning dialog for AI denoising + HQ filtering
• Fixed problem with context menu for lister on macOS not closing when clicked outside of its area
• MacOS installer now supports dark mode